Motivational Quotes

Health

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Health

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

Proverb, English

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.

Salern, Schola

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature --if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you --know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

Thoreau, Henry David

Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.

Zoroaster

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Thoreau, Henry David

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

13.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

George Dennison Prentice

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A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

16.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, thereÆs less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, whatÆs the fun in eating anything you want to?

Tom Hanks

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I'd heard it all the time,'Live in the moment.'But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

Stephanie Klein

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Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.

Chekhov, Anton

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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.

Welsh, Joan

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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Paul Dudley White

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A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

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I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Erving, Julius

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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Sher, Barbara

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The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Twain, Mark

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Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Rohn, Jim

31.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

Cher

33.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Heave

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The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

38.

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Spencer, Herbert

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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Robert Orben

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You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

Jeph Jacques

44.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Izaak Walton

45.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Murphy, Arthur

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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Orben, Robert

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To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Bowen, Francis

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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams

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I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Pilgrim, Peace